The Middle East Monitor: This is how the UAE became an occupation force in the south

In an interview with the Middle East Monitor , the head of Sheikhs of Socotra, Essa Salem Bin Yaqout, accused the UAE and Saudi Arabia of occupying Yemen.

Bin Yaqout said that the coalition had become an occupying force in Yemen, considering the role of the UAE in Yemen as destructive.

“ Our Emirati allies say that they will help us to remove the Houthis and the restoration of the legitimate government, but we see that the United Arab Emirates is attacking the Yemeni army”, he pointed out.

Bin Yaqout revealed that Emiratis are buying land on Socotra, including coastal areas , and nature reserves that were not supposed to be sold. He also accused the Emiratis of deceiving the people of Socotra through their offers to the island’s people of development projects and building roads and giving them villas, pointing out that they are doing the opposite , adding that since the coming of the UAE to Socotra stability has gone and the island involved in conflicts.

Regarding the Saudi ambitions in Al-Mahra governorate, Sheikh Yaqout said that Saudi Arabia has plans to extract oil and natural gas in Al-Mahra and build pipelines from its borders to the Arabian Sea.

“No matter how much they are , how they come here and their attempt to occupy us, the Yemeni people will not surrender and will not bow except to Allah, Yemen is has a history existence of 50 years , so they can not invade Yemen,” he concluded.

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